Peace Through His Blood
“And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.” Colossians 1:20
The Red Cross idea was born in 1859, when Henry Dunant, a young Swiss man, came upon the scene of a bloody battle in Solferino, Italy, between the armies of imperial Austria and the Franco-Sardinian alliance. Some 40,000 men lay dead or dying on the battlefield and the wounded were lacking medical attention.
Dunant organized local people to bind the soldiers’ wounds and to feed and comfort them. On his return to Switzerland, he called for the creation of national relief societies to assist those wounded in the war. They used a white flag with a red cross to signify they were helping the wounded.
The Boer War erupted in South Africa in 1880 between Great Britain and the white colonists. During one battle an overwhelming enemy force surprised a small detachment of British troops. They fell back under heavy fire. Their wounded lay in a perilous position, facing certain death. They all realized they had to come immediately under the protection of a Red Cross flag if they wanted to survive. All they had was a piece of white cloth, but no red paint. So they used the blood from their wounds to make a large cross on that white cloth. Their attackers respected that grim flag as it was held aloft, and the British wounded were brought to safety.
In a similar way, Christ’s shed blood on the Cross has made peace between God and man.
Praise the Lord Jesus that through His death on the Cross, He has made a way for us to have access to our Father in Heaven. We have peace with God. Hallelujah!
God proved His love to you when Jesus was nailed to the cross, and bled, and died, that was God declaring his love to you. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” John 3:16
“He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. – 1 John 2:2